# A-DA-KI-SI-KA (Ḫadki-šiqā)

> Ḫadki gives drink (personal name; Ḫadki, a Mari-area name of Adad, + šiqā 'who gives drink'); rival 'Ḫadki is (my) dwelling'

A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier.

- Reading: Ḫadki-šiqā
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*šVḳ-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/1389/index.md>) 'drink' 1, 'give a drink, irrigate' 2
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: A (a) · DA (da) · KI (ki) · SI (si) · KA (ka)

## Compared forms

- Amorite: ḫadk-, theophorous element, perhaps identical with Adgi, a local (Mari area) name of Adad: Ḫa-ad-ku-um, Mu-tu-ḫa-ad-ki-im (Huffmon 1965, 190–191); Mu-tu-ḫa-ad-ki-im, var. Mu-tu-ḫa-ad-ki (ARM IV 80.10′), Mu-tu-ad-ki-im (ARM II 122.7) (Huffmon 1965, 53)
- Ugaritic: 𐎌𐎖𐎊 *šqy* — šqy 'to give drink' (DULAT 827)

## Attestations

- [KH 5](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KH5/index.md>): A-DA-KI-SI-KA A-RA-U-DA — Ḫadki gives drink (personal name), first word of the heading; rival 'Ḫadki is (my) dwelling'

## Commentary

KH 5 .1 A-DA-KI-SI-KA · A-RA-U-DA ·, the heading over WI-SA-SA-NE CYP+E 2, VINb+WI 2 (GORILA III 25): the party, then its city, Arwad. A-DA-KI Ḫadki, the theophoric element ḥadk- of Mari names, which Huffmon, after Albright, sets beside Adgi, a Mari-area name of Adad (Huffmon 1965, 190–191); turūmnā-ḫadki 'Ḫadki shall exalt us' (ARM 16.1; Buck 2018, 351); ḫ unwritten as Mari Mu-tu-ad-ki-im writes it beside Mu-tu-ḫa-ad-ki (ARM II 122.7, IV 80.10′; Huffmon 1965, 53); DA for d. SI-KA šiqā 'who gives drink', √š-q-y, as SI-KA on IO Za 6, the i-noun of Ebla /šiḳītum/ 'irrigation' (Kogan 2025, 8–9; PS *šVḳ-): the storm god who waters. Rival: šikā (√š-k-n), the HT nodule word, 'Ḫadki is (my) dwelling'. Weak point: Ḫadki is attested only in Mari texts. One attestation.

## Same root

- [SI-KA (IOZa6)](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/SI-KA~20(IOZa6)/index.md>) (šiqā)
- [I-NA-TA-I-ZU-DI-SI-KA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/I-NA-TA-I-ZU-DI-SI-KA/index.md>) (ʿInatī ṯudī-šiqā)
- [TE-SU-DE-SE-KE-I](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/TE-SU-DE-SE-KE-I/index.md>) (tesʾad šeqī)

## In the onomasticon

- [A-DA-KI-SI-KA](<https://linear-a.ai/names/A-DA-KI-SI-KA/index.md>): Personal name, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Huffmon 1965
- APNM: Huffmon, Herbert B. (1965), Amorite Personal Names in the Mari Texts: A Structural and Lexical Study. The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore
- DULAT: del Olmo Lete, Gregorio; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2015), A Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alphabetic Tradition. Brill, Leiden/Boston (Handbook of Oriental Studies 1/112); Third Revised Edition, tr. and ed. Wilfred G.E. Watson; 2 parts
- GORILA III: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 3: Tablettes, nodules et rondelles édités en 1975 et 1976 (GORILA III). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 3); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris
- Buck, Mary Ellen (2018), The Amorite Dynasty of Ugarit: The Historical Origins of the Bronze Age Polity of Ugarit Based upon Linguistic, Literary, and Archaeological Evidence. 
- Kogan, Leonid (2025), Studies in East Semitic (Akkadian and Eblaite) Etymology. Claroscuro,24,1–14

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